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June Is Bustin' Out All OverUnless you have a June wedding planned:
Take Back America: June 2-4 in Washington, a conclave of the nation's leading progressives, organized by the Campaign for America's Future and partners. Speakers: Eliot Spitzer, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, Howard Dean, John Edwards, to name a few. Not cheap, at $175 plus meals ($100 students), but packed with good stuff. Info, register: ourfuture.org

Savannah Protest: June 8-10 "Festival for Peace and Liberties" is a protest against the G-8 Summit, on nearby Sea Island, and policies that "globalize" working conditions downward.

Progressives4NC: Founding convention of a new statewide caucus of Progressive Democrats, Saturday, June 5, 9:30 a.m., Friendship Friends Meeting, 1103 New Garden Rd., Greensboro. "Work county by county and statewide to reform the political process and recruit and elect progressives at every level." $10 lunch, www.greendogs.org, c/o 1143 Miller St., Winston-Salem 27103.

Memorial Day WeekendAt the Capitol: Saturday, May 29, 10-11:30 am, a Peace Commemoration on the State Capitol grounds, Raleigh. Sponsored by the N.C. Council of Churches, N.C. Peace Action, Public Assembly. 828-6501 (Barbara Zelter).

At the Movies: Latest brainstorm from those crazy MoveOn.org kids--download their flyer about global warming, make copies, pass 'em out with the MoveOn gang when The Day After Tomorrow, a summer blockbuster about, yes, global-warming disaster, opens May 28. Ranks forming at moveon.org/dayafter

This WeekMillion Mom March: Group's "Halt the Assault" tour, with pink RV, will be in downtown Raleigh, at Nash Square, Thursday, May 20, 12 noon. Get Congress to renew the assault weapons ban, which expires in September. Millionmommarch.org

Unprecedented:The 2000 Presidential Election, a first-rate documentary film about what happened in Florida. Activists are showing it Sunday, May 23, 7 p.m., at Greenshields, in Raleigh's City Market. Free. 828-1654 (Jesse Goslen).

Pro-Choice: What's the "State of Choice" in N.C.? First town hall follow-up to the big D.C. rally, Monday, May 24, 7 p.m., Durham Public Library, Main Branch. info@prochoicenorthcarolina.org, 829-9779.

Your Country Needs UVerify Bush: Never before have our national leaders had so little regard for the truth. The Center for American Progress is compiling a "Claim v. Fact" database on Bush, Cheney et. al. Read it (400 entries so far), submit your own items at americanprogress.org, a good source for the center-left take on national issues, fyi.

Verified Voting: Think this time we should count all the votes? VerifiedVoting.org and Common Cause are backing HR-2239 and S-1980 in Congress, which would require a verified paper-ballot trail whatever kind of voting machines are used. 1-800-839-5276 is toll-free to Congress: Why (one might ask) isn't Sen. Elizabeth Dole a co-sponsor?

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